America's Great highway through the Cascade Mountains to the sea. With twenty-six plates and
other illustrations. CONTENTS: Formation of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada Ranges -- Formation of the... More > Columbia River and the Gorge -- Early Life in the Columbia River Basin -- The Fur Traders -- Early Missionaries -- Life at Fort Vancouver -- The Struggle to Posses the Land -- Transportation on the Columbia -- The Columbia River Highway -- The Bees-Wax Ship -- Whitman Massacre -- Flatheads -- Indians and River Called Multnomah -- Indian Beads and Mediums of Exchange -- Coinage of Gold into Beaver Money -- Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce.< Less

December 8, 1941 was the worst day of my life. You might say that it was a bad day for a lot of people. You are probably right. My problem, however, was not the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Not exactly.... More > Mr. Patterson, the balding, uptight Principal of Sandy High School had just received an intelligence report that Sandy, OR, was to be the next Japanese target as they marched across the Pacific. It was the only explanation I could think of that made any sense as to why basketball practice had been cancelled. The city kids were more than happy to go home and miss a day of running and monotonous dribbling and shooting drills. I did not live in the city. My parents, like their parents before them, had set up a homestead on The Devil's Backbone.< Less

December 8, 1941 was the worst day of my life. You might say that it was a bad day for a lot of people. You are probably right. My problem, however, was not the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Not exactly.... More > Mr. Patterson, the balding, uptight Principal of Sandy High School had just received an intelligence report that Sandy, OR, was to be the next Japanese target as they marched across the Pacific. It was the only explanation I could think of that made any sense as to why basketball practice had been cancelled. The city kids were more than happy to go home and miss a day of running and monotonous dribbling and shooting drills. I did not live in the city. My parents, like their parents before them, had set up a homestead on The Devil's Backbone.< Less

This book contains photos of some of my favorite part of Central Oregon and the Oregon Cascades. It includes photos of: Crater Lake, Cascade Mountains, Metolius River area, Fort Rock, Smith Rock... More > and Shaniko.< Less

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